Word: tenors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...breathtaking setting. To the land of the Fra Angelicos and hand-painted Sicilian donkey carts has come the neon glare of modern living-billboards, Life Savers, Esso stations, Hopalong Cassidy, even a little TV. Venetian canals boast traffic lights, and only a lusty gondolier could raise his tenor above the gaseous snarl of motoscafi...
Another pianist, Walter Gieseking, has a horror of looking up from the keyboard and seeing somebody swaying in time to the music. Totten's suggested explanation: "It might make him seasick." The late great Tenor John McCormack "thought flowers were unmanly," and delivered himself of some spluttering Irish oaths when he was once pelted with roses. Conductor Arturo Toscanini has a still stronger aversion: "He thinks flowers are for dead...
...ruins with the confusingly mixed-up slogans and emblems of about 18 different political parties. (Example: one party flaunted the rising sun, a second a full sun, a third the setting sun; at least three small parties encroached on the Communists' hammer & sickle.) There were some stunt candidacies (Tenor Beniamino Gigli, Bicyclist Alfredo Binda) and some frivolous parties (The Movement for Divorce, The Party of the Beefsteak), but basically the campaign would be a deadly political fight between the democratic center and the two anti-democratic extremes in Italian politics...
...Rome, pompous Italian Tenor Beniamino Gigli, 63, who left the Metropolitan Opera Company and the U.S. in high dudgeon in 1939 after making cooing sounds about progress under Mussolini's Fascists, announced his interest in the current political score. He will be a candidate for a seat in the new Chamber of Deputies on Alcide de Gasperi's Christian Democratic ticket in the June elections...
...climax of his winter conducting season, Arturo Toscanini picked Beethoven's soaring Missa Solemnis. Following his baton in Carnegie Hall last week were Basso Jerome Hines, Tenor Eugene Conley, and Mezzo-Soprano Nan Merriman as soloists, the members of the NBC Symphony and the Robert Shaw Chorale. Amidst this phalanx of well-known U.S. artists was one soloist few Americans had ever so much as heard of: a 28-year-old Toronto soprano named Lois Marshall. From now on, listeners are going to hear a lot more...